Thank you for visiting Little Leapling Photography. Nothing brings me more joy than forever saving life’s sweetest moments and turning them into beautiful works of art. I’m one of those right-brained creatures who eats, breathes, and sleeps with often nagging creativity, and I’ve always been happiest when I have the limitless outlet that photography creates.

I am mom to three amazing kiddos: Nathan (11), Annika (9), and Kaia, my sweet Leap Day baby for which my business is named. Not only have these three given me unlimited opportunities to practice my photography skills, but they have taught me the secrets to the smiles and giggles that we all want to freeze for eternity.

While I’ve always loved to draw, it was when tragedy ended my music career as a saxophonist while attending Northwestern University that I turned to the visual arts for healing. Pencil sketches and paintings filled my spare time and I eventually purchased my first camera so that I could create the original subjects for my work. I was drawn to documenting children playing and found myself being commissioned to create drawings and paintings for parents wanting my artistic touch.

I had very little time for taking care of myself let alone art once I started my family, but I never stopped seeing the world through those rose-colored glasses. Everywhere I looked, I could see colors perfectly blended together and motion streaking a canvas while children’s laughter became the music in my life. I settled for seizing those moments with a camera.

I finally got my first “good” camera after my third child was born and it was a year later that I made the time to learn how to use it properly. I was no longer settling for pictures; my images were starting to come to life! And I was finally at a point in my life where I could combine the ever-demanding job of Mommy with something else that I truly love.